NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS SCHAUS 551 



Genus CHADISRA Walker 



CHADISRA MARCIDANA, new species 



Male. — Head buffy brown; collar black with some gray hairs 

 posteriorly; thorax buffy brown, the patagia white dorsally edged 

 by a black line. Abdomen dorsally light drab at base, the segments 

 following darker drab with transverse white Hnes, the two last seg- 

 ments white, underneath as above. Fore wing above: Base with a 

 narrow black wavy line followed by white with dark irrorations from 

 below cell to inner margin; an antemedial broad hair brown triangular 

 space from costa to apex belovv^ cell, where it becomes linear to inner 

 margin, edged outwardly by a somewhat lunular medial line, this 

 line adjacent to a white spot in cell; postmedial space whitish with 

 dark streaks on costa and irregular dark spots to submedian; a 

 postmedial black line outangled on costa from a small costal spot 

 vertical from vein 7 to vein 6, incurved from vein 6 to vein 4, then 

 inbent somewhat lunular, closely follow^ed by light drab to vein 4 

 and divided by a narrow white line; termen rather broadly white 

 extending basad between veins 4 and 3; a terminal lunular black 

 line; cilia white with deep grayish-olive spots at veins. Hind wing 

 above white on inner margin preceded by a light grayish-olive space 

 to below cell; the medial space on costa whitish; termen citrine- 

 drab, also the veins; termen from vein 5 to tornus with pale spots 

 on interspaces. Fore wing below dark vinaceous-drab with ter- 

 minal white spots on costa and larger spots on termen. Hind wing 

 below silvery white, the costa and termen dark vinaceous-drab, on 

 termen diminishing toward anal angle. 



Expanse, 50 mm. 



Habitat. — Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



2V^e.— U.S.N.M. no. 34712. 



Also a paratype in National Collection. Closely allied to C. 

 hymen Dyar. 



CHADISRA ALSOPIA, new species 



Ma^e.— Head and thorax white, mottled with light-gray hairs; 

 abdomen above to beyond middle dusky brown, the last segments 

 and the underside white. Fore wing white with faint grayish irrora- 

 tions; a fine black basal line inangled on median closely followed by 

 a fainter very irregular line; antemedial line well marked on costa, 

 very fine, outcurved to median and outbent to inner margin; traces of 

 a faint postmedial line; subterminal line from costa before apex, 

 wavily inbent to vein 4 then fainter and sinuous to tornus; a fine 



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